Jennifer Earl, director of the Center for Information Technology and Society and an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will lecture at Hamilton on Tuesday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Auditorium of the Science Center. Her lecture is titled "Protest on the Information Highway: Trends in Online Activism," and is part of the Levitt Center's year-long series, The Age of Information. It is free and open to the public.
Earl has received numerous major funding awards, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for research in 2006-2011. She has published widely, including in major sociological journals such as the American Sociological Review and the Annual Review of Sociology, as well as in respected specialty journals such as Sociological Theory, Mobilization, and Social Science Computer Review. Current projects include CAREER award-funded research on Internet activism and a study of arrests made at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Earl has received numerous major funding awards, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for research in 2006-2011. She has published widely, including in major sociological journals such as the American Sociological Review and the Annual Review of Sociology, as well as in respected specialty journals such as Sociological Theory, Mobilization, and Social Science Computer Review. Current projects include CAREER award-funded research on Internet activism and a study of arrests made at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
